How high mosquitoes and flies fly

The question of which floor mosquitoes fly to causes numerous disputes. Insect, which is familiar to everyone from childhood, having spread almost throughout the globe, has not been fully studied. It is not known exactly how high the mosquitoes fly. According to one statement, they do not rise above the third floor of a multi-storey building, eyewitnesses claim that they are able to reach the 28th floor.

Features of aerodynamics

Learning vital activity of mosquitoes Engaged scientists from around the world.Japanese scientists were able to study the aerodynamics of flight. Shooting was performed in a slow rhythm. We filmed in infrared radiation with a camera at a speed of 10 thousand frames per second. The results were published in magazines in Japan, the UK.

Interesting!

In the process of research it became known that during the flight the wingspan is only 40 degrees. This is 2 times less than that of bees. With such physiological abilities, a small creature is not able to rise to a high level above the ground. However, the question of where mosquitoes do not fly remains open.

Factors that increase flight altitude

Flying mosquito

The size of the insect is about 3 mm in length, mosquito weight - about 2 mg. With such dimensions, the trajectory of movement can easily change the wind. The height of the flight of a mosquito depends on weather conditions.

• In the absence of wind pests rise no more than 15 m above the ground, which is approximately equal to the third floor of a multistory building.
• According to numerous reviews, quietly rise to the height of a 9-storey building. Even found at 28. Contributes to the movement of over 15 m wind, which picks up insects, lifts up.The number of pests decreases with every meter, but with a large number of bloodsuckers and on the fifth floor will be required mosquito net on the windows to protect your home from annoying bloodsuckers.
• Pests often live in damp basements of a multi-storey building, from there they quietly move up through the ventilation shafts, through the elevator. At what height the insect will appear depends on the structure of the high-rise building. There is no particular difference if there are mines, an elevator.

Interesting!

Under the article, which provided information that mosquito does not rise above the third floor, the maximum height is 15 m, numerous comments fell down. Eyewitnesses claimed that on the 15th floor, bloodsuckers do not give rest. To the question where do mosquitoes come fromThey claim that they do not get into the room through the ventilation grilles, the staircase, but from the side of the balcony, where they were often found on the glass from the outside.

Flying in the rain

Flying mosquito in the rain

The petty creature never ceases to amaze with its abilities. Scientists have relatively recently investigated the flight of a mosquito during rain, the height of movement.

The raindrop has dimensions of 8 mm, weight up to 100 mg, which exceeds the size of an insect several times.

• Once on the paws, a drop somewhat changes its trajectory of movement, throws it aside, twists.
• If a drop hits the body, does not change the trajectory, carries an insect down a few meters, does not allow it to climb.
• When a drop hits the body of an insect, when it is on a solid base, it becomes fatal.

The experiment was carried out in a special container, where artificially created rain. They filmed what was happening camera, and then analyzed what was happening. During the rain, bloodsuckers can fly, but their movements do not have a clear coordination, raindrops do not allow to climb high, the maximum flight at a height of 1 m above the ground.

Mosquito structure and flies are different, they also differ in size, but they annoy a person equally. The latter are able to rise much higher, the wind helps to rise higher, and fly flight has its own characteristics.